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This is a guest post from Chris Wait (@cdwait), who is Ebooks Manager at New Directions Publishing, where he digitizes all the books. I Had This Nightmare One Time That I Worked in E-production About a week ago, I got…Continue Reading →

Here at EPUB Secrets we are very lucky to have a broad, global community of smart developers who want to share their R&D with us. This Guest Post is from Jiminy Panoz, French ebook developer extraordinaire. I love modern CSS….Continue Reading →

I’m evaluating an EPUB project that is seemingly pretty straightforward, if long. It’s a dictionary, 1700 pages, 85,000+ entries. In looking through the pages, I realized that all those diacriticals that help pronunciation, including popular items like the schwa, the bilabial implosive,…Continue Reading →

Amazon has just released a new edition of their Kindle publishing guidelines, version 2015.3. Page 2 of the Guidelines contains a revision history. Briefly, there’s news about using KindleGen to create your mobi file; some updates to image guidelines, an…Continue Reading →

#eprdctn hour: XML Workflow Fact-filled hour with discussions of the hows and whys of the XML workflow, including how to get authors and editors on-board, how to edit XML-based InDesign files, MSWord considerations, and more. https://storify.com/KevinBNGO/xml-workflow EPUBCHECK 4 EpubCheck 4…Continue Reading →

InDesign might be the application of choice for a large segment of print production and ebook development, but QuarkXpress is used worldwide to do the same tasks. Sérgio Teixeira, a designer and ebook developer working in Porto, Portugal, shows us some features of the…Continue Reading →

It takes the most dogged of ebook developers to solve the toughest problems. This week, Keith Snyder proves his mettle as he solves a cross-device problem and then digs into a pesky swipe issue. “You come recommended,” he said. “Should be a straightforward…Continue Reading →

Amazon has done us all a favor and added hyphenation and a new font (Bookerly), and has refined its support for drop caps. Professional typesetting standards are now supported! We can provide high-quality ebooks to our readers, knowing that a drop cap will align nicely…Continue Reading →